Posted on 09/23/2010 10:48:13 PM PDT by NathanR
The California Air Resources Board is on the verge of destroying the collaborative work of an unlikely coalition of environmentalists, labor, employers and municipalities. These diverse interests worked together to pass SB375, a bill to create more sustainable communities through regional planning. Now, CARB staff have issued SB375 greenhouse-gas emission targets that were never considered by stakeholders to the SB375 implementation process. Rather than keep all parties involved, the CARB staff has set lofty goals that communities realistically won't be able to achieve.
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The higher targets would have severe ramifications for our state's economic recovery. The MTC analysis indicated that a target of 12 percent would require gas prices of $9.07 per gallon, as well as the implementation of congestion pricing, parking fees and other taxes. This would make it prohibitive for people to travel to work, without providing alternative means of transportation.
These extreme reduction targets will place unreasonable restrictions on development, construction and home building. There is also great concern that the inability to reach these targets will keep new projects held up in litigation, while businesses are forced to pay heavy fines and mitigation fees.
With a 25 percent unemployment rate in the construction industry, this will only make the situation worse. Construction and housing jobs have historically driven economic growth during economic downturns. But with policies like those under consideration by CARB, we are putting a cap on our state's potential and resigning ourselves to fewer jobs and fewer opportunities, preventing our economy from rebounding and harming efforts to reduce the state's high unemployment numbers
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/21/EDGM1FGPV9.DTL#ixzz10QEzbXkO
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OTOH, the owners of suburban homes will see their property values tank, and the State will have an inverse condemnation case on their hands the size of Montana... after all the banks holding their mortgages go under.
It's not just the price.
This summer, we rented a Chrysler Town and Country van for a month-long vacation. We drove it 9,000 miles across the entire country and back. The $3.65/gal 87 octane gas we bought in California got us 17-18 mpg at 65mph. The $2.25/gal 85 octane gas we bought in Texas got us 24-25 mpg at 80mph. Effectively, California gas cost us half again what Texas gas was costing us while saving us considerable time.
“urban tenements” good one. I think most people will leave and go elsewhere. But then, that is probably what the idiots want anyway.
Wow
Good luck with that. Agenda 21 is global.
It is OK, due to Obama’s policies, we in CA are no longer BREATHING, much less polluting..HE KILLED US...Boxer, Feinstein started the death march and the ONE made it real...NO JOBS, NO JOBS...what the heck do they NOT understand...NO JOBS....
With no jobs, there is less pollution correct? Win win for them.
Think it was between 5 and 6 pm.
Will be on the podcast at KFI for the John and Ken show.
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Holdren uses free market to get back to Stone Age - John Holdren (now “science” advisor to Obama)
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Nearly 40 years ago, John Holdren (now “science” advisor to Obama) wrote a book with the infamous Ehrlichs. In the “recommendations” at the end of 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions, they said: “A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States”.
If this goes through, we’re out of th land of fruits and nuts..
KFI is where I heard about this.
At this rate, sooner or later, cars will be expected to consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen in California.
They don’t care. They want no real industry or farming in CA. Only:
— Hollywood
— College campuses
— State workers
— Apple
— Hispanic peasants
These people are idiots. How are they going to pay for all that withoug productive people.
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